Quotes with one-man

Quotes 6821 till 6840 of 10005.

  • Billy Bragg That taught me one lesson which is that you're naive to believe that bands can change the world. Bands are very naive to think that just if their audience thinks that they can change the world, that they can. That was quite a lesson for my career, really.
    Billy Bragg
    English singer-songwriter (1957 - )
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  • Michael Harrington That the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them. They are not simply neglected and forgotten as in the old rhetoric of reform; what is much worse, they are not seen.
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  • Thomas Carlyle That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Beth Henley That was always my inclination, to start on a new play before the other one gets done, because at least you'll have something to go back to if that play gets trashed.
    Beth Henley
    American playwright, screenwriter, and actress (1952 - )
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  • Blaise Pascal That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.
    Source: Pensees
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Bai Juyi That we wished to fly in heaven, two birds with the wings of one,
    And to grow together on the earth, two branches of one tree.
    Earth endures, heaven endures; some time both shall end,
    While this unending sorrow goes on and on for ever.
    Source: The Song of Long Sorrow
    Bai Juyi
     
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  • Benjamin Franklin That which resembles most living one's life over again, seems to be to recall all the circumstances of it; and, to render this remembrance more durable, to record them in writing.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • John Stuart Mill That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Avicenna That whose existence is necessary must necessarily be one essence.
    Avicenna
    Persian polymath (0 - 1037)
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  • Branford Marsalis That's kind of like how jazz is sometimes. You're out there predicting the future, and no one believes you.
    Branford Marsalis
    American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (1960 - )
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  • Carlton Cuse That's one of the reasons why 'Lost' has to end: because we can't sit around and envision, 'What is the flashback for Jack in year nine?' It doesn't realistically exist.
    Carlton Cuse
    American screenwriter, producer, and director (1959 - )
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  • Neil Armstrong That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
    Neil Armstrong
    American astronaut and engineer (1930 - 2012)
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  • Oprah Winfrey That's the gift that a mother can give, to make everyone feel like they are the special one.
    Oprah Winfrey
    American TV host, Actress (1954 - )
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  • Alberto Giacometti That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.
    Alberto Giacometti
    Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman and printmaker (1901 - 1966)
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  • George Eliot That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Bobby Fischer That's what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one.
    Bobby Fischer
    American chess grandmaster (1943 - 2008)
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  • Barry McGuire That's why I had to leave Hair on Broadway, because I did it for about a year, and one night I was doing the show, and I realized, well, this is not real. I told the director. He says, man, it was a killer show tonight.
    Barry McGuire
    American singer-songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Rachel Carson The ''control of nature'' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and the convenience of man.
    Rachel Carson
    American marine biologist, author, and conservationist (1907 - 1964)
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  • Eldridge Cleaver The ''paper tiger'' hero, James Bond, offering the whites a triumphant image of themselves, is saying what many whites want desperately to hear reaffirmed: I am still the White Man, lord of the land, licensed to kill, and the world is still an empire at my feet.
    Eldridge Cleaver
    American afro-amerikan leader, writer (1935 - 1998)
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